Call for Interns – Africa Centre for Health Systems and Gender Justice
We are a Pan-African social impact organisation advancing gender justice in health systems through inclusive financing, community-led care, and feminist leadership.
Data and Research Intern (Full Time)
The Data and Research Intern will support the collection, cleaning, organisation, and analysis of HerEconomics and FemDigiNomics data.
Key responsibilities:
Support data collection from women participants, community partners, and savings groups. Clean and organise quantitative and qualitative data from surveys, interviews, focus groups, and partner reports. Assist in building the 5,000-woman status and insights base. Support analysis of women’s income patterns, savings behaviour, enterprise barriers, digital access, care responsibilities, and health-related financial pressures. Assist in preparing research summaries, dashboards, learning briefs, and internal reports. Support ethical data handling, consent documentation, anonymisation, and secure data storage.
Ideal candidate:
Background in statistics, economics, public health, gender studies, data science, development studies, or a related field. Comfortable working with Excel, Google Sheets, Kobo, ODK, STATA, R, Python, Power BI, or similar tools. Strong attention to detail and interest in women’s economic opportunity and health equity.
NLP and AI Intern (Full Time) – Location: Nairobi
The NLP and AI Intern will support the development of English and Swahili language resources and early AI/NLP workflows for FemDigiNomics.
Key responsibilities:
Support the collection, cleaning, translation, and annotation of Swahili and mixed language narratives. Help develop language categories around savings, debt, chama obligations, business risk, care work, health shocks, and lending readiness. Assist in testing simple NLP workflows for classifying women’s needs, barriers, and support pathways. Support documentation of language resources, annotation protocols, and model/testing outputs. Contribute to responsible AI discussions, including bias, explainability, privacy, and ethical use of women’s data. Work with community and research teams to ensure language tools reflect how women actually describe their economic realities.
Ideal candidate:
Background in computer science, data science, computational linguistics, AI, NLP, information systems, or related fields. Interest in African languages, especially Swahili and Sheng. Basic knowledge of Python, NLP libraries, machine learning, data annotation, or language data processing is an advantage. Strong commitment to ethical, community-grounded AI.
Responsible AI and Data Governance Intern (Full Time) – Location: Nairobi
The Responsible AI and Data Governance Intern will support the development of ethical, safe, and community-centred data systems for FemDigiNomics. The role will ensure that women's data is collected, stored, analysed, and used in ways that protect privacy, dignity, agency, and trust.
Key responsibilities:
Support the development of informed consent processes for data collection and participation. Assist in creating protocols for data privacy, security, anonymisation, and responsible data use. Review project activities through a gender, ethics, and safeguarding lens. Support documentation of data governance policies and standard operating procedures. Assist in identifying and mitigating risks related to bias, exclusion, discrimination, and misuse of AI systems. Contribute to discussions on responsible AI, explainability, transparency, and accountability. Support compliance with applicable data protection and privacy frameworks. Assist in community engagement processes related to ethical use of data.
Ideal candidate:
Background in law, public policy, ethics, data governance, information management, public health, gender studies, or related fields. Strong interest in responsible AI, digital rights, privacy, and data protection. Understanding research ethics and safeguarding principles is an advantage. Excellent analytical, writing, and documentation skills. Commitment to community-centered and rights-based approaches.
Financial Inclusion and Partnerships Intern (Full Time) – Location: Nairobi
The Financial Inclusion and Partnerships Intern will support the development of pathways that connect women participating in HerEconomics and FemDigiNomics to financial services, enterprise support, savings opportunities, and livelihood strengthening initiatives.
Key responsibilities:
Map financial inclusion actors including SACCOs, microfinance, fintechs, women's funds, banks, and savings groups. Conduct landscape assessments on women's financial inclusion ecosystems. Support development of referral pathways linked to the Women's Financial Inclusion and Lending Readiness Scorecard. Assist in documenting barriers women face when accessing formal and informal financial services. Support partnership development with financial institutions, investors, women's enterprise programmes, and livelihood initiatives. Assist in preparing partnership briefs, concept notes, and engagement materials. Support monitoring of women's access to financial inclusion opportunities arising from the project.
Ideal candidate:
Background in economics, finance, business, development studies, public policy, or related fields. Strong interest in women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion. Understanding microfinance, community savings models, digital finance, or entrepreneurship ecosystems is an advantage. Strong research and stakeholder engagement skills. Excellent communication and report writing abilities.
Method of Application:
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